Tahoe Shamanic Horse Healing Retreat
Date: May 2nd, 2024
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Healing Humanity to Heal the Earth
Horses are healers and advanced beings. They are conduits to higher frequencies and remind us to be present—not in the past or future, but in the here and now. When we ask to receive the healing gift from horses, we witness firsthand their ability to move stuck energy, calm emotions, and clear the mind. Our herd of 13 horses honors this role and looks forward to working with participants in our Horse Healing Retreats.
Journey into the realm of horse spirit medicine
Experience profound healing through yoga, sound, ceremony, movement, and horse medicine.
Reset rigid patterning through free liberty and conscious connections with our shaman horses.
Set intentions to receive insights, solutions, clarity, and leadership guidance to impact your life.
Expand confidence and competence through movement and bareback partnership with horses.
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Bareback Partnership
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Cacao Ceremony
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Consciousness Movement
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Constellation Healing Exercise
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Free Liberty Horse Healing
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Sacred Flower Bath
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Sound Healing Integration
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Temazcal (sweat lodge)
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Yoga
We invite participants to tap into the horses' innate healing abilities and honor them as shamans in their role of awakening our consciousness.
At this retreat, participants will rewrite their narrative and release blockages to make space for new energy. They are guided to set intentions for insights, solutions, and clarity while expanding confidence and competence through movement and bareback partnership. The horses illustrate parallel issues of trust, forgiveness, and threshold limits and illuminate emotional intelligence skills for mindful decision-making and past grief healing.
Participant Testimonies from our May 2023 Retreat
Horses are advanced beings waiting for humanity to wake up and get it. They’re animals with instinct, yes, but they are also stellar beings with intuition and connection to source energy.
About the Center
Starr Horse Retreats is a holistic equestrian retreat center. We teach awakened-consciousness healing modalities surrounding mindful living and respect for the planet. We care about the air we breathe, the health of our oceans, and what we do with our waste. We are bringing the medicine of nature back to the people.
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Our retreat center has three guest houses, three arenas, a 10-stall horse barn, a workshop room, a yoga yurt, Gathering Grounds, and 30 acres of pasture with multiple obstacle courses and moguls for walking and riding.
We work in stewardship with the horses, advocating for their needs and care, and we work with humans through the horses. We understand that healing humanity heals the earth.
This 3-night Shamanic Horse Healing Retreat is for participants who want to experience profound healing through yoga, sound, sweat lodge ceremony, dance, and horse medicine. Participants will receive meals, lodging, and tremendously powerful healing modalities.
Shamanic Horse Healing Retreat Sample Schedule:
Day 1 arrival Friday, 3 pm,
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1. Arrival and Settle in Rooms
2. Introductions/ Intentions with Melinda Starr
3. Dinner with Chef Catalina
4. Bed
Day 2 Saturday
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1. Morning Yoga with Pamela Jean
2. Breakfast Chef Catalina
3. Circle for Content with Melinda Starr and Pamela Jean
4. Free liberty* Horse Healing
5. Lunch Chef Catalina
6. Re-Writing the Narrative with Melinda Starr
6. Sweat Lodge with Raquel Berdejo
8. Dinner Chef Catalina
9. Bed
Day 3 Sunday
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1. Morning Yoga with Pamela Jean
2. Breakfast Chef Catalina
3. Circle for Integration
4. Free Liberty Horse Healing
5. Constellation Healing Exercise/Bareback Partnership with Ari Krause
6. Lunch Chef Catalina
7. Circle for Integration
8. Cacao Ceremony with Raquel Berdejo
9. Sound Healing Integration with Angelene Hall
10. Dinner Chef Catalina
Day 4 Monday, April 29th
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1. Morning Yoga with Pamela Jean
2. Breakfast Chef Catalina
3. Circle
4. Pack up and Go Home
* Free Liberty meditation: Integrating into the herd on their turf to be present and willing to receive healing. We aren't there to change, direct, or influence them or their environment.
Details
We offer three separate houses to accommodate sleeping for12 participants:
This retreat is for families, corporations, groups, and solo.
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Although we are a fully functioning farm—with hay fields, tractors, horses, chickens, and goats—we are only 30 minutes from South Lake Tahoe and 45 minutes from Reno (international airport). We are a few miles away from Interstate 50, 80, and Highway 395, so you get the convenience of modern life while staying on a dream farm oasis.
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We are on a 30-acre property with multiple gathering grounds, including a tipi, sweat lodge, fire pit, immersion tub, arenas, obstacle courses, moguls, and stargazing deck… Many activities abound in this area, including snow skiing, boating on the lake, Crystal Mountain - hunting for crystals, old ghost towns, Virginia City, and four-wheeling adventures… There is a plethora of activities! We extend the idea that if people want to stay beyond the four days of retreat, our participant concierge can help create an amazing adventure vacation in America’s Wild West!
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Chef Catalina prepares all organic and vegetarian meals on-site. Please let us know of any dietary restrictions when you register
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Positive Reinforcement Horse Training Certification
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